SPLOOSH TUESDAY (Issue 6)

Hello, and welcome to another wholesome edition of Sploosh Tuesday (it's still Tuesday SOMEWHERE< right?!), the slipperiest nuggets of excitement happening over at Horror Kitsch Bitch headquarters (read: my loungeroom, bed, local coffee shop, uni and/or work lunchroom).

Hot off the press! Ok, so maybe they've been working on it a while. But, the FAT ACTIVISM  VIRTUAL CONFERENCE is happening this weekend!

I'm pretty darn excited to be participating, and hearing incredible speakers like Virgie Tovar and Jes Baker. They just emailed saying they were now accepting questions for the panels. I have too many!!

I think you can still register, it's only $39 OR you can just pay what you can. Which is amazing. I'm not sure exactly how it's going to operate, but i'm so confident it'll be incredible. My phone will be off this weekend. Ok, not really, that's impossible. But metaphorically speaking, IT WILL BE DEAD TO ME. 

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If you love Modcloth as much as me, you'll know that they have some pretty bangin' plus-size models. Yes, they could do even more to promote body diversity, but you know what else they've done that's amazing?

They've signed a pledge to NOT USE PHOTOSHOP in any of their advertising material. On the rare occasion that they do, they are going to specify that it has been altered. This is a self-imposed pledge, I don't think there will be in policing of it. But you know what? I'm gonna trust them. I'm an innocent til proven guilty kinda gal. And if it's guilty, KILL DEM ALL. *

*sorry for morning aggression.

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Morbid, but mind-boggling... in the Victorian Era, it was a tradition for people to have photos taken with their deceased ones, or to memorialise them. In some cases (like with babies), it was the only way they would get to have a family photo taken together. 

Creepy cool, hey? All images (and more) from here. 

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I have been learning cool things in my new uni course, and one of my subjects brought to my attention The Johnny Cash project. Basically, somebody has created a live-action music video for the song "Ain't No Grave" which was released after his death, and through this project you can go online and claim a still frame from the video. You then recreate that frame in any medium you like, and submit it to the project. Eventually, all of the frames will be connected and we will have incredibly amazing memorial music video for a many who changed lives.
Here's a video that explains more:

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And just because we can't have a Sploosh Tuesday without the presence of an adorable kitty:

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SPLOOSH TUESDAY (Issue 2)

Oh my stars, everything is bananas! My desktop is a mess, my inbox is overflowing, my brain is scattered.

But you know what?

IT'S SPLOOSH TUESDAY!

Punyus (that got me splooshin' in Issue1) has finally opened it's online store!! Here's my wishlist of the stuff they have available so far:

1. Red suspender shorts!  2. Sweet shirt that I would ALMOST wear pink for. More importantly - WIG!  (tragically, not for sale)  3. Purple Punyus cat tote! 4. Punyus bling. I would work that, so hard. 5. Fried egg skirt. Seriously. I need this.

This week there have been a few ripples in the Fat Acceptance Movement. I'm a little late to the party, but basically the cat was thrown amongst the pigeons by an infuriatingly uninformed article on thoughtcatalogue, written by an ignorant “normal sized person” (her term) -_-

It's called “6 Things I Don't Understand About the Fat Acceptance Movement”.

So why the heck is it on my Sploosh list?!

It's not – but the reply article written by the one and only Jes Baker of The Militant Baker is. I won't bother linking you to the original since Jes has the complete article within hers. As always, she is passionate, intelligent and eloquent. She disarms with charm, and fights fire with facts. She is a SUPERHERO.

This is Jes.

This is the article:

6 THINGS THAT I UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT

Jeez after all the reading, you deserve some visual rewards.

Here, have a CAT COUCH. Not a couch for cats. That's this.

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But a couch that IS a cat! OHMYGLOB!

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While we're on the topic of cats:

Watch out Gomez, winter is coming!!

Source - of which there are HEAPS of other awesome cats in tights

What can possibly top this cat-aclysm?!

THIS GUY'S BEARD

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And it also does this:

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Lastly, if you read my Bluesfest post, you'll know that i'm ALL about C.W. Stoneking right now (and for the rest of forever, probs). You should listen to this song if you like old-timey blues, sung by a young, white, Aussie.